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Jane Little E is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the National University of Singapore. She joined NUS in September 2025. Prior to this appointment, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford HAI in Computer Science, mentored by James Landay. She previously held a postdoctoral position at the Design Lab at UC San Diego as part of the debut cohort of the UCSD CSE Postdoctoral Fellows Program, mentored by Haijun Xia and Steven Dow. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2021, where she was coadvised by James Landay and Pat Hanrahan. She received her Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Princeton University, with a major in Computer Science and a certificate in Applied and Computational Mathematics.

Her research focuses on human-computer interaction, computer graphics, and human-centered AI, with an emphasis on creativity support tools. She explores the design of computational systems that help users develop domain expertise, drawing on cognitive science and education theory to support agency and ownership in learning and creative processes. Key publications include “DataParticles: Block-Based and Language-Oriented Authoring of Animated Unit Visualization” presented at CHI 2023, which received a Best Paper Award; “ProcessGallery: Contrasting Early and Late Iterations for Design Principle Learning” at CSCW 2024; and “When to Give Feedback: Exploring Tradeoffs in the Timing of Design Feedback” at Creativity & Cognition 2024. She has received recognitions including selection for the Heidelberg Laureate Forum as a Young Researcher, the Rising Stars in EECS Workshop, and the UCSD CSE Debut Postdoctoral Fellows Program. She leads the Palette Lab at NUS and is affiliated with the Smart Systems Institute.